Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:24:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/fxp if_fxp.c if_fxpreg.h if_fxpvar.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103132122460.8869-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20010313231736.V78851@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:10:06PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > Chris Dillon wrote: > > > > > If there is sufficient time to test this out, it would be a good MFC > > > candidate. > > > > With all due respect to jlemon, this is the classic example of something > > that should not be mfc'ed right before -release. Given the huge installed > > base of fxp cards any glitch, no matter how obscure or justifiably > > overlooked will be disasterous. What we have works well, this can wait till > > after the release. > > Well, actually, I wanted to bring this into 4.3 as 'nfxp', so that > the old driver would still be the default, but the new driver would > be available for those people who had otherwise non-working cards. > > Jordan didn't feel that this was a good idea, saying that calling > anything nfoo tends to become permanent, and renaming things at a > later date just causes confusion. I agree with Jordan here. I *think* that most of our user community is sophisticated enough to either get new kernel source after a release, or, failing that, picking up a new if_fxp.ko which you will/can undoubtedly put on your freebsd web page. Perhaps a release note pointing to this is an alternate for those to timid to get new kernel source would work, no? -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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